“It’s a non-event, reacted the lawyers for the president of PSG. It’s part of the desire (…) to create buzz to try to obtain undue advantages.”
A new case for Nasser Al-Khelaïfi. Hicham Karmoussi, Moroccan ex-butler of the boss of PSG, filed a complaint in Paris on Thursday March 23 against his ex-chief in particular for “hidden work” And “harassment”. In this simple complaint, of which AFP was aware, Hicham Karmoussi, 48, denounces concealed work, the employment of a foreigner without a work permit, moral harassment, psychological violence, threats and working conditions contrary to human dignity. “Hicham Karmoussi has, for years, worked without a contract or residence permit for Mr. Al-Khelaïfi and at an unsustainable pace”his lawyer, Antoine Ory, told AFP.
“It’s a non-event, it’s part of the desire, since Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is someone known, to create buzz to try to obtain undue advantages”, also reacted Renaud Semerdjian and Francis Szpiner, lawyers for the president of PSG, threatening legal action in the event of “disclosure of information on the private life” of their client or third parties. Nasser Al-Khelaïfi had declared to The Team in autumn : “Justice will come its way, I don’t have time to talk about these insignificant professional criminals.”
Working conditions that “degrade” from 2011
Former professional tennis player like Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, Hicham Karmoussi claims to have started in the mid-2000s to assist “NAK”, then to have worked for him “full time” from 2011, the year of the arrival of his boss at the head of PSG. All without a work contract and residing at home. His working and living conditions with Nasser Al-Khelaïfi “degrade” from 2015, he says again. After a first serious personal event affecting “NAK”, Hicham Karmoussi would have liked to resign, without succeeding.
At Mediapart, the former butler says that he took care of “logistics”, travel, but the private life and the most sensitive appointments of the boss of PSG. “Nasser had a secretary, but there were things the secretary didn’t know that I took care of”he explains to the investigation site.
He also and above all affirms that on October 12, 2017, during the search at the request of the Swiss judicial authorities of the headquarters of BeIN Sports in Boulogne-Billancourt in the investigation into obtaining media rights for the 2026 and 2030 Football World Cups , Nasser Al-Khelaïfi asked him to “clean the house” urgently in order to conceal possible evidence of violations. Hicham Karmoussi would then have “guard” at the request of his boss several media, including “a USB key containing many concluded contracts” with Jérôme Valcke, the former general secretary of Fifa, and “burned the rest of the documents”.